New LEAP Program Launched with Overflow Contingent in Cornwall!
Peter MacGibbon

 Dear Friends, Colleagues, Partners, Affiliates, and Supporters:

3ci – The Carleton Centre for Community Innovation is very pleased to announce the launch of its new LEAP Program in Cornwall, Ontario with its partners, the Stormont, Dundas, & Glengarry Community Futures Development Corporation (SD&G CFDC) and the Cornwall Business Enterprise Centre.

January 18th, 30 participants assembled in downtown Cornwall to take part in the program orientation and launch activity. For the next three months they will pursue weekly workshops and real-world activities designed to foster hands-on entrepreneurial approaches to their working lives. After the formal delivery of the program, participants will continue to receive coaching support from the LEAP team, as well as access to services from our partners. The high level of enrollment is a direct result of three exploratory workshops delivered in the region by LEAP Lead Coach Shawn MacDonell last fall, as well as subsequent word-of-mouth and vigorous grass-roots promotion by our partners.

With this LEAP pilot we are growing out of the pilot phase of our project with the commitment and active involvement and support from of our Stormont, Dundas, & Glengarry partner agencies dedicated to entrepreneurship and employability. Thanks especially here to SD&G CFDC Executive Director, Gay Hamilton’s forward-thinking approach and the Cornwall Business Enterprise Centre's Alyssa Blais along with the SD&G CFDC's Terry Besner’s energetic outreach, in taking the “leap” with us.

The LEAP Program is a project sponsored by the Office of Literacy and Essential Skills (HRSDC) and is intended is to connect nationally with other organizations seeking to foster entrepreneurial culture in rural and remote Canadian communities. We want to change the way employability training and entrepreneurial development is delivered in Canada and link our project with other great work being done in partnership initiatives across the country. For those interested in learning more about the project, please do not hesitate to contact me at the coordinates below.

Thanks again to the LEAP Working Group and Volunteers, our Partners and Affiliates, and the 3ci Staff.

Best regards,

Peter

Peter MacGibbon Project Director / LEAP Cell: 613-853-8513 http://theleapforward.ca